The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Distinguished Mechanics.

--One of the best editors the Westminster Review could ever boast of, and one of the most brilliant writers of the passing hour, was an Aberdeen cooper. One of the editors of the London Daily Journal was an Elgin baker; perhaps one of the best reporters of the London Times was an Edinburg weaver; the editor of the Witness was Hugh Miller, a stone mason. One of the ablest ministers in London was a Dundee blacksmith, and another was a Banff watchmaker. The late Dr. Milne, of China, was a Rhyne herd boy. The principal of the London Missionary Society's College at Hong Kong was a Huntley saddler; and one of the best missionaries that ever went to India was a Keith tailor. The leading machinist on the London and Birmingham Railway was a Glasgow mechanic, and perhaps the very richest iron founder in England was a Moray working man. Sir Jas. Clark, her Majesty's physician, was a Banff druggist. Joseph Hume was a sailor first, and then a laborer at a mortar and pestle in Montrose. These men, however, spent their leisure hours in acquiring useful knowledge.